sweet Alexas Collier (ed. ii) reads ‘most sweet Alexas,’ in accordance with a marginal note in his Second Folio; ‘by what follows,’ he says, ‘“most” is clearly required, and we may be sure that it had, in some way, escaped in the press.’ [It cannot be denied that the addition, most, is an improvement; not absolutely necessary, but still an improvement. The next words ‘most anything Alexas’ seem almost to demand it. To improve Shakespeare, however, is no more justifiable than to deface him.—Ed.]
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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